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New EU law requires devices to be repairable - Every phone, television or washing machine you buy in Europe must be easier to repair starting tomorrow. That’s when the European Right to Repair Act tak (www.nporadio1.nl)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by inari@piefed.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The products covered by the obligation to repair currently include:

  • washing machines and washer-dryers
  • dishwashers
  • refrigerators
  • electronic displays
  • welding equipment
  • servers and data storage products
  • mobile phones, cordless phones and tablets
  • tumble dryers 
  • e-bikes and e-scooters batteries (from 18 February 2027)
  • local space heaters
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[–] pwalker@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I have to admit that I haven't checked ifix scores for a hot minute and am surprised that since the iphone 15 Apple consistently beats all other big brands in reparability score. Before that of course they were bad, which is probably why people remember them that way. I like that trend, hopefully Samsung and Google also hop on that bandwaggon any time soon.

[–] GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world -2 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Strange that 73 other people, 30+ of who downvoted long after I added the proof, think that ifixit are wrong.

[–] pwalker@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I don't think they have a problem with the ifixit scores, more with the words you have chosen to convey your message. Also of course you will not find any love for Big Tech in the Fediverse ;-)

[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 2 points 10 hours ago

Personally I downvoted you because you completely forgive/forget the older devices from Apple.

They had sold approximately 2.2 billions of impossible to repair devices before they kind of changed course with the iPhone 14 line.